What to expect
Fritz Lang remakes Renoir’s La Chienne as an American noir in which authorship, money, and romantic fantasy become inseparable forms of entrapment.
How to ease in
Watch who receives credit and who controls the story attached to each painting. The crime grows from emotional deception, but ownership gives that deception material force.
Heads-up
A lonely amateur painter is drawn into a relationship built on deception, desire, and other people’s willingness to profit from his work.
A signature can move a painting into another life while its maker remains trapped in his own. I find the theft of authorship as cruel as the romantic lie built around it.
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A signature can move a painting into another life while its maker remains trapped in his own. I find the theft of authorship as cruel as the romantic lie built around it.
— Momo
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